Meet the first-ever editor for Latino audiences at NPR

[Nieman Lab: The Daily Digest] Wednesday, May 17, 2023 [Meet the first-ever editor for Latino audiences at NPR]( “The weight of coverage shouldn’t have to fall on the shoulders of a select few, but rather on the organization as a whole. I am here to make sure of that.” By Hanaa' Tameez. [The New York Times launches a subscribers-only “Headlines” podcast in a new audio app]( What We’re Reading Axios / Joann Muller [Congress moves to preserve AM radio in cars →]( “Officials worry that if drivers don’t have access, they might miss important safety alerts.” New York Times / Cecilia Kang [OpenAI’s Sam Altman urges lawmakers to regulate AI →]( “I think if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong. And we want to be vocal about that,” Altman said during a Senate subcommittee hearing. “We want to work with the government to prevent that from happening.” New York Times / Tiff Fehr [How The New York Times conquered “a pesky foil of data journalists” everywhere: the PDF →]( “We needed to dig into the nonprofits’ I.R.S. filings to assess the patterns. But stuck within 15,851 cumulative pages of ‘bad’ PDFs (we counted) was data we could use to reconstruct their financial claims.” International News Media Association (INMA) / Greg Piechota [News bundles are spreading across Europe →]( Publishers in five European markets introduced cable-style subscription bundles that include national and local news, magazines, podcasts, video, and other perks. In Norway, for example, Schibsted offered a “Full Tillgang” bundle with tabloid and quality news, national and local news, business news and advice, a news aggregator app, and podcasts. Cnbc [After rewatching Trump’s town hall, CNN CEO Chris Licht says he’d do some things differently →]( “Licht’s primary issue with the CNN telecast, sources said, was it focused too much on the spectacle of Trump while not homing in on the substance of what Trump said.” The Verge / Mia Sato [TikTok will pay creators of viral filters and effects →]( “Effects that have been used in 500,000 videos within 90 days of being created will earn the artist $700. Within those 90 days, creators earn an additional $140 for every 100,000 videos above the 500,000 baseline. That means that if your filter was used 1 million times in 90 days, you’d walk away with $1,400.” CNN / Jennifer Korn [Google will start to delete accounts that have been inactive for at least two years →]( Use it or lose it. the Guardian / Amy Hawkins [Open letter calls for release of Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai →]( Signatories include Guardian editor-in-chief, Katharine Viner, and Nobel peace prize winner Maria Ressa. Lai, who is 75 and was first arrested in 2020, is the founder and publisher of Apple Daily, a liberal newspaper that was forced to close in 2021 after the Chinese Communist party cracked down on pro-democracy protests. Press Gazette / Bron Maher [BBC News launches a 60-person BBC Verify team to add “radical transparency” to its journalism →]( The “highly specialized team” will “share the evidence of their work with their audiences,” using capabilities that “go beyond conventional newsroom techniques.” [Nieman Lab]( / [Fuego]( [Twitter]( / [Facebook]( [View email in browser]( [Unsubscribe]( You are receiving this daily newsletter because you signed up for for it at www.niemanlab.org. Nieman Journalism Lab Harvard University 1 Francis Ave.Cambridge, MA 02138 [Add us to your address book](